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The official source for MLB player pitching stats, including wins, ERA, and strikeout leaders.
The official source for all-time MLB player pitching stats, including wins, ERA, and strikeout leaders.
Against the five premier pitchers in the National League (Warren Spahn, Bob Gibson, Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, and Jim Bunning), the Dominican Dandy was the best in head-to-head competition. In 43 starts against that group, Marichal was 24-12 with a 2.11 ERA. Koufax was amazing in his prime.
Major League Pitching Year-by-Year Averages, Pitching Totals and more on Baseball-Reference.com.
Ed Walsh, the career leader in earned run average. In baseball statistics, earned run average (ERA) is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched (i.e., the traditional length of a game).
Players listed in bold were on a 2024 MLB team roster. Look for your favorite MLB pitcher in this impressive list of baseball's top 500 career pitching leaders.
Baseball Savant’s search page allows you to query MLB’s Statcast database on a per-pitch, per-game, per-player, per-team, and per-season basis. Definitions for each Statcast metric may be found in the MLB Glossary. Some of these queries are very complicated and take time to run.